I’m sat here writing this on my home PC thinking how wonderful it is that I am almost completely safe due to having an internet security suite protecting me in addition to a healthy dose of common sense. One of the key components of the defences that program gives me is a firewall that is designed to keep attackers out. My firewall is pretty good and, arguably, mildly impressive.

Thats right, the US has nukes and, according to a report from the Department of Defense, they aren’t scared to use them. So, kiddies, delete that exploit kit now, switch the computer off and go and have your tea because, if you don’t….

Seriously, read the report – its a good read about cyber security and cyber warfare but the use of the word “nuclear” is worryingly over the top – I think either the author has some inadequacies and needs to brag about the size of his arsenal or else someone was sponsoring his word placement – nuclear appears more than 100 times through the text!

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